Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
THERE are no tramps in Key West,
Fla, and no objects Of charity.

HERE are no UrbmpS Ill h6y VcSu,
Fla, and no objects Of charity.
In Los Angeles, CAL, servant-girls
receive from $15 to $50 per month.
DURING the last ten years the popu-
lation of Great Britain has increased
II per cent. trade, 20 and shipping 81
per cent.
A METAL railroad tie has been in
vented by a Brookirgs, OAK, citizen
that costs 81. so; the ordinary wood
tie costs so cents.
Iris estimated that over 1,8O0loco-
motives were built in the United States
during the past year. They cost
about $15, 100000.
GEORGIA claims to have discovered,
at MilledgeviIle, q young man who can
do all the feats performed in Boston
by Mind Reader Bishop.
A CONVICT in Sing Sing, N. Y, prison
has been discovered carrying on a
systematic theft of shirts from the
laundry of the institution.
SOME pews in Trinity Church, Bos-
ton fetch 81 800 and $4,000 g. year,
while the first choice in Plymouth
Church brought only 800 at the last
sale.
JOHN WEST, colored, who in his time
had been a slave, doctor, and g.
preacher, and who was the Oldest
man in Hunterdon County, died at
Libertyville, N. j., recently, aged 81
years. He was born at Raleigh.
AT a sale of unclaimed articles at a
Pennsylvania railroad Office, one bid
der bought agood sewing machine for
1926. A man bought q good over
coat for 25 cents. One package was
found to be full of baby mittens.
ONE of the most successful CONNER
cial travellers in New York State is q
negro. He knows his business thor
oughly, is respected by all who know
him, and so far as known, is the only
colored drummer In the country.
A YOUNG daughter of Nebraska s SEN
Tor senator lis named Happy New
Year Van Wyck, g. clerk in one of the
departments at Washington, Return
Jonathan Meigs, and prominent un-
dertaker at Reno, New, Coffin G.
Bier.
SEALING operations off Cape Flat
terry, W. IT,, will begin next month.
There are some ten American and
twenty British Columbia boats en-
gagged in this work, and the aggregate
value of their catch is considerable
each year..
A SHEEP belonging to Mr.. Gould, of
Topsneld, Mass, strolled on to the
piazza of that gentleman's house the
other day, and seeing the reflection of
himself in the window, went for it,
and as g. consequence took the window
along with him.
THE largest cash transaction ever
made in the South was the purchase
for 100000 at Admission, Ala, re-
Gently, by g. syndicate OF the proper
ty of the Woodstock Iron and Steel
Company and the Admission Land and
Improvement Company.
THE London school board has de.
cided that when corporal punishment
is necessary it shall be administered
by the head teacher and that an en-
try of the fact shall be made in tie
log book. A good deal OF discussion
has been had over the matter.
MARGARET BoYENvAL, the girl in
Aisne, France, who has been sleeping
for forty-three months, is beginning to
attract great attention. Physicians
say she promises to continue her slum-
Der indefinitely. She is perfectly
healthy and in good condition.
THE supreme court decided at Bos-
ton that a sleeping-car company stip-
ulates to protect the property of those
who pay for it's accommo dations, but
that parlor car company is not lia-
BILE for the loss of articles left IN q car
while the owners have gone to refresh
themselves.
A PECULIAR natural substance has
been found IN Georgia. yellow ma
terial, very much like beeswax, which,
when shaved off with g. knife, rolls up
like that article. It is kind of rock,
and while there is nothing about it
that burns, it becomes as hard as
flint when heated.
POCKET WARMERS are q new device
for keeping the hands warm. A warm
or is composed Of tin box an inch in
diameter and 6 inches long, holding g.
fuse of slowburning material, which
burns for more than an hour without
smoke Or gas. The warmer Is put in
g. pocket or carried in muff.
A BROOKLYN, N. Y, woman who
hired cook q few days ago was con-
siderably frightened when the latter
displayed q heavy beard on removing
her veil. Supposing her to be O. man,
the housekeeper had her arrested,
but she had her beard shaved off at
the police station and was released.
SOME people seem to think that the
editor OF a country newspaper ought
to be a sort of clown and give open
air performances in the street. In
other words, he must be regular
bootlicker, beg every one he meets to
take his little paper, play the hypo-
critic in a thousand ways and live on
wind.-Baxley (Ga.) Banner.
MRS. SARAH ANN KELLY, the "Bard
of Shanty HILL" is dangerously i'll
and has been taken to the Scranton
Hospital; Tennyson is ailing, and will
go to the south of France; Walt Whit
man and Wakeen Miller are growing
infrm. But we do not mourn as those
without hope. The Sweet Singer of